Christmas is just a few days away and I prepared today my Yule Log for Christmas Eve's dinner. This year we will spend the holidays in Finland, like every other year. I wished to bring my French touch to a very traditional Finnish Christmas meal, and what could be more French than serving a fabulous looking and fine tasting Bûche de Noël? I quickly ...
In a Baking Mood
No-Bake Spicy Chocolate Ganache Tart {Vegan}
I am obsessed with dark chocolate lately. Dark chocolate chunks in my Almond Butter Cookies, a dark chocolate dip for my Crisp Polenta Fingers... Last night I took it one step further and made these oh, so decadent spicy chocolate ganache tarts, with no-bake pie crust. One delicious way to kick off the weekend! ...
Almond Butter Cookies With Dark Chocolate Chunks & Hazelnuts
Last weekend I had a sudden craving for cookies. Probably because of the first snow fall in Southern Finland, that just makes me want to curl on the sofa, with a hot cup of tea and biscuits. Generous chunks of dark chocolate and chopped hazelnuts came to my thoughts, as I was in the kitchen collecting the ingredients for my cookies. ...
Fresh Fig And Almond Cream Pie
The fig season is now! In northern Europe figs appearance on the market stalls is very short. So let's quickly bake a fresh fig pie, before the season ends! ...
Apple Pie From The Finnish Countryside
The mist is covering the Finnish countryside this morning, surrounding our apple trees loaded with ripe fruits. I am sipping a hot cup of green tea, watching the nature outside and enjoying that peaceful feeling, so unique to our Finnish cottage. We picked kilos of apples yesterday and I baked this simple but oh so flavorful apple pie. Sometimes ...
Gluten Free Bread That Looks Like And Tastes Like Bread #2
I finally nailed down a good recipe for what is now my favorite everyday white bread: easy to prepare, soft inside with a nice golden crust... and approved by my rightfully demanding hubby (who just enjoyed three weeks of French crusty breads during our summer holiday in Brittany). I could rightfully picture my bread on the shelf of a French ...
Moist Orange And Almond Cake From Le Petit Jagu {Flourless}
I am back from my holiday in Brittany, my head still full of its spectacular coastline, the charming medieval towns and the amazing sandy beaches, free from the crowd we are so used to in Southern France. Travelling for me is a lot about food, all the more when I go to France, my home country! I got so much inspiration from all the delicious dishes ...
Mini French Lemon Tarts {With Birch Sugar}
Lemon tart or tarte au citron is a classic of French pastries. I often taste lemon tarts which are either too acid, or the lemon flavor disappears behind a too sweet lemon curd. You probably guess by now that I am rather demanding on my lemon tart. Now, the challenge today for me was to revisit the luscious lemon tart recipe, to make it not ...
Gluten Free Bread that Looks Like And Tastes Like Bread
Being French, from the homeland of baguette, pain de campagne, Campaillou and other yummy breads, I am not very keen on commercial, bagged in cellophane gluten free breads. The texture is dry and crumbly, and you never get a decent crust. My dream is to bake gluten free bread that would deserve its place on the shelves of a French boulangerie, ...
Chocolate Eclairs, Gluten And Dairy Free S’Il Vous Plait
Every time I visited France over the past years, I rushed to a bakery to get fresh pastries and especially an éclair au chocolat, my favorite of all. ‘Éclair’ means ‘flash of lightning’, the perfect name for a pastry I tend to eat so speedily. Surely I wouldn’t give up on chocolate eclairs and its divine creamy chocolate filling, just because it ...